MOSCOW. March 30 (Interfax) - The Russian government's tax decisions create a good environment for the development of the Shtokman gas condensate field, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with Christophe de Margerie and Helge Lund, the heads of two of the project's participants,...

MOSCOW. March 30 (Interfax) - The Russian government's tax decisions create a good environment for the development of the Shtokman gas condensate field, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with Christophe de Margerie and Helge Lund, the heads of two of the project's participants,...

The article focuses on the Shtokman offshore gas project in the Barents Sea, a joint venture of Gazprom with Norwegian Statoil and French Total ASA. It notes that Shtokman is ranked as one of the richest deposits around the world, with confirmed reserves of four trillion cubic meters of natural...

The article focuses on the development of Reinertsen NWR (Northwest Russia), a fabrication yard based in Murmansk, Russia. According to director of fabrication Thomas Reinertson, the company has invested more than $9.74 million for the venture which works on projects for Statoil and Norsk Hydro....

The article presents information on the prospects in Russian Arctic circle for Gazprom, the world's largest extractor of natural gas. Gazprom views Arctic continental shelf as a promising source of gas and liquid hydrocarbons and opines that the Shtokman field in the Barents sea is just a part...